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HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY (1844 - 1889), poet and priest , including Dylan Thomas. 'The Wreck of the Deutschland' was written at the suggestion of the Rector of St Beuno's College, Father John, to commemorate the drowning of Franciscan nuns fleeing persecution in Germany in December 1875, and in it Hopkins expressed his sense of guilt at the contrast between his physical and spiritual safety in Wales and the peril and martyrdom of the nuns. Having given up poetry
HOWARD, JAMES HENRY (1876 - 1947), preacher, author and socialist born 3 November 1876, in Swansea, son of Joshua George, and Catherine (née Bowen) Howard. His father claimed to be a direct descendant of John Howard, the prison reformer. He lost his parents when a child. For some time he was brought up in his mother's family and later he was put into the Cottage Homes at Cockett near Swansea. As an adolescent, he was taken in by a collier and his wife, Thomas
HOWELL, DAVID (1797 - 1873), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Waunbrics, St Clears, Carmarthenshire, 31 March 1797, son of Dafydd Howell. While still young he was received into the communion of the Bancyfelin society by Thomas Charles of Bala. In 1814 he went to Swansea as a tailor's apprentice. He became a member of Crug-glas church and began to preach there in 1817. In 1821 he was sent by his Connexion to Radnorshire as a missionary and he settled
HOWELL, JAMES (1594? - 1666), author Second son of Thomas Howell, curate of Llangamarch, Brecknock, and later rector of Cynwil and Aber-nant, Carmarthenshire. Educated at Hereford Free School, James Howell entered Jesus College Oxford in 1610 and graduated in 1613. He took up a business career and after 1616 travelled on the Continent for some years. The knowledge of foreign languages that he acquired during this period and on a
HOWELL, JENKIN (1836 - 1902), printer, writer, musician and Dan Isaac Davies. He gave up shoe-making, and from 1854 till 1861 worked with his brother-in-law as a sawyer. But on the advice of his pastor Thomas Price (1820 - 1888) he became a printer, opening works of his own in 1867. His frequent contributions to the press won him repute in all parts of Wales - much poetry of his appeared in Yr Ymofynydd, Seren Gomer, and Y Geninen. He himself printed
HOWELL, JOHN (Ioan ab Hywel, Ioan Glandyfroedd; 1774 - 1830), weaver, schoolmaster, poet, editor, and musician ; it is still of interest and use as a source-book for information on the literature of Wales, and on the history of the provincial eisteddfodau. Besides examples of the work of the editor (some of them written for the Carmarthen and Brecon eisteddfodau) the volume contains a selection of poems by Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir), Jenkin Thomas, Cwm-du, Cardiganshire, Eliezer Williams, Daniel Evans
HOWELL, JOHN HENRY (1869 - 1944), pioneer of technical education in New Zealand Aberystwyth. Principal Thomas Charles Edwards offered to lend him the deficiency. However, by taking private pupils and assisting at the Old Bank School in the town he did not have to borrow but he never forgot the principal's generous offer. By the end of the session he had completed the London B.A. course, and took a teaching post in a private school in London. Before the end of a year there he was
HOWELL, THOMAS (bu farw 1540?), philanthropist everyone … the said duckats [to] be disposed unto four maydens, being orphans - next of my Kynne and of bludde - to their marriage … ' For the subsequent history of this ' Thomas Howell Charity,' including an account of what happened to the accrued moneys up to the middle of the 19th century, see Thomas Falconer, The Charity of Thomas Howell A.D. 1540 (London, 1860); it is sufficient to add that Howell's
HOWELL, THOMAS (1588 - 1646), bishop promotions at the hands of Charles I, especially his appointment to the see of Bristol in 1644 at a critical juncture in the royal fortunes, and by the tributes paid him by David Lloyd and Thomas Fuller, is that he was the most loyal of Anglicans (he was the last bishop to be consecrated in England for sixteen years).
HOWELL, THOMAS FRANCIS (1864 - 1953), businessman and barrister
HOWELLS, HOWELL (1750 - 1842), Methodist cleric January 1842, remained a staunch Methodist, frequently taking part in the ordaining of Methodist ministers. He was twice married (1) to Miss Thomas, daughter of the parish priest of Bonvilston and (2) to Miss Samuel of Cowbridge.
HOWELLS, REES (1879 - 1950), missionary and founder of the Bible College, Swansea Born 10 October 1879 in Brynaman, Carmarthenshire, 6th child of Thomas and Margaret Howells. He had few educational advantages and left Brynaman elementary school when he was 12 to begin work in a local tinplate mill. He emigrated to America in 1901 and worked in tinplate mills in Pittsburgh and Connellsville, Penn., where he was influenced by a Jewish evangelist, Maurice Reuben. He returned to

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